The Cantus Ensemble’s new season begins—with a soaring start! On Monday, October 12 at 8:00 PM, the Vatroslav Lisinski Small Hall opens its doors for the first concert of the 2026/2027 cycle, symbolically titled Volare, volare. And Cantus is not taking flight alone this time: it is joined by Italy’s Icarus Ensemble—one of its long-standing artistic […]
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The program at the end of the concert season that celebrated the Cantus Ensemble’s quarter-century anniversary was intense, diverse and varied – neither yesterday, nor today, but only tomorrow, was the title of the schedule designed to present the youngest generation of Croatian composers and their works after they passed a specially designed competition for […]
The end of the concert season, which began the Cantus Ensemble’s anniversary year, was marked by an evening of fresh music by the young generation of authors thanks to a specially designed competition. The show, on Friday, May 22, 2026, from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m., will present the latest works by six composers who […]
The sixth concert of the Cantus Ensemble cycle in the 2025/2026 season, entitled Neither Yesterday, Nor Today – Only Tomorrow, brings an evening of powerful authorial poetics, new soundscapes and as many as seven premieres by Croatian composers of different generations and aesthetic orientations. The concert will take place on Monday, May 18, 2026 at […]
Having held its first concert two and a half decades ago as part of the 21st Music Biennale Zagreb, the Cantus Ensemble laid a solid foundation for the growth and development of the contemporary music scene in Croatia, enriching Zagreb’s concert life with fresh performances of 20th and 21st century music, by both Croatian and […]
On Monday, April 27, 2026, at 8 p.m., in the Small Hall of Vatroslav Lisinski, the Cantus Ensemble will hold the fifth concert of its concert season, entitled Musica degli amici (Music of Friends). The concert is part of the celebration of 25 years of the Ensemble’s activity, which will extend throughout the entire celebratory […]
On Friday, April 17, at the Vatroslav Lisinski Concert Hall, as part of the Zagreb Philharmonic‘s Blue Cycle, the audience can expect a rare musical experience in which the double bass becomes the star of the evening. In an evening that combines the majesty of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and the elegance of Franz Joseph Haydn […]
Alea iacta est! So it was at their beginning. A quarter of a century ago. They cast the dice without knowing which way it would turn. And yet the dice, propelled by some inner inertia and necessity, continued to roll for the next twenty-fiv
The fourth concert in the Cantus Ansambl cycle – Aged 20 Years – Musical Links – will take place on Monday, 2 March 2026, at 8 p.m. in the Small Hall of Vatroslav Lisinski Concert Hall. Two decades after its tour to Sweden, Cantus Ansambl r
The Croatian music scene has lost one of its strongest, freest, and most versatile artists—a flautist whose name was synonymous for decades with supreme musicianship, sound exploration, and uncompromising artistic curiosity. Dani Bošnjak wa